In a game often rooted in tradition, a new baseball bat is making waves, shaking up the sport with its unique design and unprecedented results. Dubbed the "torpedo bat," this innovative piece of ...

Angela Nelson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning digital editor and storyteller who covered a variety of general interest stories on MNN (now part of Treehugger) from 2014-2019. If a bat has found its way ...

It's late in the day on a muggy spring afternoon in northern Belize. A couple dozen researchers enter the Lamanai Archaeological Reserve on foot. Their objective is to catch as many different kinds of ...

Jaymi Heimbuch is a writer and photographer specializing in wildlife conservation, technology, and food. She is the author of "The Ethiopian Wolf: Hope at the Edge of Extinction." The Egyptian fruit ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Leslie Katz covers the intersection of culture, science and tech. Bat beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Some people find Sir ...

Over the past two decades, bats have turned out to play host to all kinds of nasty viruses. Some of these can infect people; many, including Ebola and MERS, can be deadly. Most human outbreaks have ...

Long before Spanish Conquistadors and Christopher Columbus returned to Europe with stories of blood-sipping bats, European communities were telling tales of undead monsters called vampires. But the ...

The moment that captured the attention of the baseball world last month will soon be featured on an exclusive piece of memorabilia. Marco Rocco, the Little League player who was suspended — and then ...

Judith Kaplan, daughter of the influential rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, became the first woman to publicly celebrate the traditional Jewish coming-of-age ceremony. Becoming a bat mitzvah, or "daughter of ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...